Monday, May 25, 2009

Here’s the latest. Sorry for the delay. Just got in from Kraków. If you’d just give me the keys to your blog, I could post more often, even while abroad. So much is available these days that one rarely needs to rent from the video store. I’ll send you the new list of Japan-related links tomorrow.

3. This Twilight Zone version of Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” which is said to have been the inspiration for both Borges’s “The Secret Miracle” and David Lynch’s Lost Highway.

5. This 1967 film version of the world’s most unfilmable novel, Ulysses. In 12 parts. Apparently there’s another version, of which I can only find this final scene (so much for Youtube’s no-nudity rule!)

6. Dante’s Inferno, read in its entirety (Cantos I to XX), using Longfellow's 1867 translation.

is a collaborative web journal founded and edited by Beholdmyswarthyface and Sally Suzuki. It focuses primarily—but not solely—on modern Japanese culture, history, and literature. Of miscegenated and common birth, Beholdmyswarthyface grew up in Phoenix, AZ. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Tokyo, and currently teaches literature as tenured lecturer at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies 名古屋外国語大学.